It is clear that the question turns upon another, namely, which can we know best, the psychology of animals or that of
human beings? If we can know most about animals, we shall use this knowledge as a basis for inference about
human beings; if we can know most about
human beings, we shall adopt the opposite procedure.
Be pleased, then, to remember (First): That the actions of
human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason.
"Every elevation of the type 'man,'" he writes in "Beyond Good and Evil", "has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society--and so will it always be--a society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among
human beings."
Lady Arabella looked like a soulless, pitiless being, not human, unless it revived old legends of transformed
human beings who had lost their humanity in some transformation or in the sweep of natural savagery.
He is one of the very few
human beings I have met with in the course of my life who is not to be cheated.
He would look out of the window for ten minutes at a time; but no, he did not care for the earth swept of
human beings. He liked human beings-- he liked them, he suspected, better than Rachel did.
The animal evidently was accustomed to the association of
human beings. It occurred to the Russian that the ape represented a certain considerable money value, and before they reached the sailors he had decided he should be the one to profit by it.
He had never been interested in
human beings, for which one must blame him, but he had had rather too much of them at Wickham Place.
Now this business of giving life to animals, making them talk and behave like
human beings, is an extremely difficult one.
Whatever its scientific accuracy was, they were at present ignorant how it would answer with
human beings. The honor of putting it to the proof was energetically claimed by J.
This bar of the uncle being now removed (though young Nightingale knew not as yet in what manner), and all parties being quickly ready, the mother, Mr Jones, Mr Nightingale, and his love, stept into a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to Doctors' Commons; where Miss Nancy was, in vulgar language, soon made an honest woman, and the poor mother became, in the purest sense of the word, one of the happiest of all
human beings.
But if one could be certain of nothing in dealing with creatures so incalculable as
human beings, there were explanations of Blanche Stroeve's behaviour which were at all events plausible.
human beings - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"